We are glad to offer you a product that will make joy to you by its appearance and will make easy the work of model-builders when finishing their models. However, we are aware that it is impossible to involve all tricks and advice provided by all those model-builders who have helped us to test these kits. In the course o our co-operation we tried to catch a couple of rules for the assembly of the instrument panels so that results of your work be also as best as possible. So, here they are:

1. Proceed as carefully as possible in the course of the assembly as damage to the basic board may be only hardly repaired. The basic board is covered with a protection foil. This is to be drawn down from the panel only after having cut the desired shape, drilled holes for the instruments and, where necessary, after having drilled small holes for instrument screws.

2. If the panel has to be sprayed, use enamels for plastic model kits and also a model-building airbrush. It is suitable to spray some panels twice. Some panels are delivered already sprayed with a basic colour; if this is the case, the spraying will be dropped out. If you would wish to save money for the plastic model paints, screen-printing enamels (for PVC) may be used; staff of the nearest screen-printing shop will surely present you a couple of drops.

3. Some panels (e.g. for P-51 Mustang, Fi 156 Storch) have the instrument panel already distinguished on the basic board which will surely simplify your work. However, you must carefully distinguish circumferential panel lines along this panel. Note: Do not carry on any other arrangements if a panel is included in the kit in a relevant colour.

4. Perform the drilling applying only the so-called knot drills (may be bought e.g. in OBI, otherwise normally used in joiner's workshops). Round off hole edges for simpler inserting of the instruments. The instruments need not be cemented. At modern aircraft, standard instruments are inserted from the panel back side and fixed with four screws on its front side. To underline an overall image we recommend the following solution: using the drawing contained in the kit, sign four marks around the (instrument) hole and drill using ca 0.5 mm drill. Then you may chose the cheaper variant, i.e. simple pins that you stick e.g. in polystyrene and spray their pin-heads with a common, or special model, black paint. Nip ca 4 mm of the pin, measured from the pin-head, insert in the thin hole and cement with a quick-drying cement from the rear side. The more expensive, but more impressive, variant is: you can buy a respective number of suitable screws for glasses; the remaining procedure is the same as for the pins.

5. Most of our kits include accessories (tables etc.) made of paper. These are to be cemented with a contact adhesive. If a table, or some other text or a sign, is on a light blue paper, it is a decal which is applied after soaking in a warm water for a while. Place them carefully (preferably with tweezers) in a respective place on the panel. After having placed the decal, carefully remove excessive water with cloth. Do not paint already dry decals.

6. You may also come across with resin parts in the kits (switches and other control elements on the panel). Paint them with a fine brush, applying a relevant colour. You may also spray them using a model airbrush. Work the resin parts carefully as they are fragile.

7. We believe that your mode-building experience will enable you to carry on the assembly to your full satisfaction. We would be very much pleased if you let us know how did you get on with the assembly and we would appreciate any comment or experience you have acquired throughout the assembly process. Every comment will be awarded with a small air-fan gift.